Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, c. 2001-2004; Professor, the Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus, OH; Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago. IL; Visiting Professor, Rice University, Houston, TX; Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY; the Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA; Max Fisher Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2007; Director, University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Architecture, Chicago, IL, 2007- ;

A.B., Brown University, Providence, RI; J.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL;

Somol married Linda Pollari.